Ocean Friends is a combination of two types of books – a drawing instruction book and a story. And, it involves mermaids, which are hot characters at the moment (along with unicorns)! The book begins with simple instructions and a materials list, pictured. It continues with the story, interspersed with instructions for drawing different ocean creatures that are introduced along the way. In the story, we meet Alana, a charming young mermaid that introduces herself and her friends to a dolphin names Aqua that is new in the area.

The story is charming and has a good message about making new friends welcome and the drawing instructions are fairly simple to follow. There are not many drawing books for the primary level and this one is quite suitable for that grade range. This will be a fun book to read with students and go back to draw with them. Purchase this book if you want update your drawing books.